Dora García's work is characterised by its strong conceptual content and its use of diverse creative supports (ranging from drawings to installations, by way of performance, video, photography or the writing of diaries) to investigate the construction of fictions with which to decode the infinite relations that are formed between the subject and the context in which she or he is immersed.

Continually traversing the subtle boundary that separates the real from the unreal, on the basis of highly concrete narratives and scenographies, her works reflect on the pursuit of an identity - an identity that is only possible as a product of the process of negotiation between the individual and her surroundings.

The poster that Dora García presents at the CASM is part of her most recent project, for which she has taken as her basic working material the files of the Stasi, the secret police of the former East Germany. The Stasi's files constitute a vast body of material that documents their daily surveillance activities and their routine spying on the population, and the resulting state of vigilant suspicion and paranoia this generates in ordinary citizens. However, Dora García's aim is not to reconstruct realistic scenes or construct direct evocations of a particular time and place, but to utilize certain concrete parameters to transmit such essential notions as control, fear and information, habitual presences in her work.